Profit Making and Risk in Independent Children’s Social Care Placement Providers
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Research
- Tuesday, May 25, 2021 | CYP Now
Local authorities in England spend more than £2bn a year buying fostering and children's homes services alone from private and voluntary sector organisations (collectively referred to as the independent sector). Local authorities themselves continue to provide most foster placements, but around two in every five foster placements are made with independent sector providers. In children's homes the reverse is true. Here, three in every four placements are made in the independent sector.